Vol. 71/No. 13      April 2, 2007

The infant mortality in other Latin American countries was considerably higher. For example, the rate in Guatemala was 69.7; in Mexico, 49.7; in Venezuela, 44.5; and in Argentina, 44.9. In the United States the rate was 14.1; in West Germany, 14.7.

Cuba, with a population of some 10 million, has a total of 16,193 doctors. This figure is expected to rise to at least 17,000 this year and to 20,000 by 1985.  
 
April 1, 1957
The program to integrate New York City schools, which was passed by the Board of Education on February 28th, is under attack. Racist groups, principally in Queens, are demanding a City Council hearing on the integration proposals.

The Federation of Civic Councils of the Borough of Queens says it is for “natural” but against “forced” integration and has written the Board of Education requesting clarification. Two thousand letters criticizing the integration program (“largely similar,” according to the New York Times) have been received by Charles Silver, President of the Board of Education. Ninety percent were from Queens, although Queens has the smallest number of Negro and Puerto Rican children—less than 5%.  
 
April 2, 1932
BERLIN—The parliamentary battle of March 13 is over. 18,600,000 votes for Hindenburg, 11,333,000 for Hitler, 4,970,000 for Thaelman. The conditions preceding the elections were full of promise for an absolute growth of the Communist movement. The economic crisis has reached an unprecedentedly low level. It produces its effects in the tremendously large unemployment figures, in the shutting down of factories, mass dismissals, bank crashes and export decline. The Socialist Party leaders succeeded in restricting the question of the decisive struggle between Fascism and proletariat to the sphere of parliamentary contest. They could succeed in this only because the Communist Party and along with it, the proletariat, is incapable of conducting an extra-parliamentary struggle.  
 
 
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